Kavadi festival

• Kodaikanal
• Pollachi
• Ooty
• coonoor
• Chettinad
• Sivakasi

  

Pune Festival starts with the installation of an idol of Lord Ganesha at Nehru stadium in Pune. Then there is long series of cultural programs touching every sphere life. The festival continues for two weeks and includes the programs like instrumental concerts, vocal recitals, dance, Lokatal Lavani Mahotsav, Marathi-Hindi Hasya Kavi Samelan, Urdu Mushiara, Loknatya, Single act play etc. Mahila Mahotsav, Maharashtrian Women plays, dramas of different languages, painting exhibition are other programs organized in the festival.
Entertaining programs like Mime & mimicry, Magic Show etc give it a charming look. Sports completion like Vintage car rally, water sport, motocross, skating competition, bicycle completion, golf competition, bullock cart race, etc make the festival more vibrant.

The festival is gaining wide popularity with many tourists from across the country participating it every year. The festival of Pune also invites the many national and international acclaimed artists to perform their art there. Indeed the festival is the moment of pride for Punekars (the people of Pune).

Jaisalmer Desert festival

How to reach

By air : 

Jaisalmer airport is the nearest airport to reach Desert festival. From there you can take a private taxi or hire a cab for prior to your arrival.

By train :

 By road :

 Jaisalmer town has good road connectivity with major cities of state and country. You can easily get government buses, private vehicles, taxi to reach your desire destination. 

Have you ever visited Jaisalmer Desert festival ? If yes share your experience. If you haven't ever visited, plan and go this time!

 History of Chennai 

Formerly known as Madras, the city of Chennai serves as the capital of Tamil Nadu a southern state of India. The history of this metropolitan city dates back to 1st century when it was a small fishing village. But the area around the village had been economic, military and administrative importance since the first century. The area saw the rules of many kingdoms like Pallava, Chera, the Chola, Pandya and Vijayangar. Portuguese who came there in 1522 built a port named Sao Tome. In 1612 they established themselves well at Pulicat, just north of Chennai.

Francis Day of British East India Company purchased a small piece of land on the Coromandel Coast in 1639. The region was under the rule of Chennapa Nayak of Vandavasi who gave the British permission to set up a factory and warehouse for their trading reasons. After a year the British built the fort called as Fort St.George which further served as the main centre of the growing colonial rule in India. (Fort St.George is the same building which housed Assembly of Tamil Nadu state till 2010 when a new secretariat was built for the Assembly house.) Fort St. George was meantime one captured by the French only to lose it back to the British who thereafter take an extra care by fortifying the wall of fortress and by taking other pre measures to withstand the further attacks from French and other possible threats of Hyder Ali and Sultan of Mysore.

By the end of eighteenth century the British already had captured a large area around Tamil Nadu and some parts of present states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and established the Madras Presidency with Madras serving as the capital. The city witnessed large scale of development during the British rule and grew in a major naval base. With the arrival of railway this thriving city was linked to other major cities like Bombay (now Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata) etc. Madras (Chennai) became the only Indian city to be attacked by the Central powers during the First World War. The attack by the German light cruiser caused the destruction to shipping.

After the independence of India in Aug-1947, Madras became the capital city of Madras State which was renamed as the state of Tamil Nadu in 1969. The city also saw the violent agitation against the central government’s decision of making Hindi as the national language. It was in 1996 that the name of Madras was changed to Chennai. The city witnessed the natural disaster in 2006 when Indian Ocean Tsunami caused major destruction on the shores of Chennai killing many people.

Bangalore is one of the most important tourist destination and capital of the Karnataka state also known as the Silicon Valley of India.Often it is known as a dream place for the software engineers so it is an IT hub.The city with ultra modern infrastructure and transport facilities invites the visitors around the world.

The city was founded by the local ruler Kempe Gouda in 1831.The city has seen drastic growth in recent year due to the tourist places. Bangalore is bestowed with several parks adding to its greenery hence called the Garden City at times.

LalBagh:
It is most richly diverse Botanical gardens in South Asia.It is laid out by Haider Ali in 1740.Spread over 240 acres of Parkland.Here we can also find Glass house in which Cameron a superintendent in the 1870 had responsible for initiating work.

ISKCON Krishna temple :
It was built by the prosperous International Society of Krishna Consciousness(ISKCON) and known for glossy exterior as well plentiful decorations.It features both modern and traditional Indian architecture.

Tipu Sultans Palace:
Tipu Sultan's Palace is really famous tourist destination in Bangalore and was built toward the end of the 18th century. It is built entirely from timber.The fort is noted for its beautifully carved arches on the gate.

Bannerghatta National Park Bangalore:
The Bannerghatta National Park is situated 22 km away from the city. t is a reserve of lions, Indian tigers and many other mammals. Crocodiles, picnic corner, pets corner and serpentarium with lions safari are among the many attractions in the park.The country's first butterfly park was set up in the Bannerghatta National Park on 25th of November 2006.

Sri Sri Ravishankar Ashram:
Bangalore has spiritual destination where every evening thousands of the city's well-heeled gather for the evening lecture and satsang.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, once a disciple of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (renowned spiritual guide of the Beatles)The Art of Living, his secular philosophy of enjoying life.

Cubbon Park Bangalore:
Park is around 2 kms From MG Road. Laid out in 1864 by Richard Sankey, The chief engineer of Mysore, and named in honor of the Commissioner, Cubbon Park extends over an area of 135-ha (334 acres).There are we can find marble statues of Queen Victoria and Edward VIII.Middle of the park a red painted,Neo-classical building known as the Sheshadri Iyer Memorial Houses a Public Library.

"International kite festival "- Gujarat

Attractions : colorful kites of sizes and hues.

International Kite Festival is held at Ahmadabad,Gujarat.Kite festival is celebrated every year in January and it is major tourist attraction over the world.The Patang Bazaar (kite market), situated in the heart of Ahmadabad city, is open 24 hours a day during the Uttarayan week.

'Makar Sankranti' is celebrated as the kite-flying day because it shows a change of season marking the movement of the sun into the northern hemisphere means a celebration to mark the end of winter.Expert kite-makers and flyers comes from cities of India and People from all over the world display their exotic kites of various designs.Tremendous variety of kites are seen.This festival now attracts corporate world as kites provide for cost effective opportunity for branding.